The Manufacturer’s Guide to Industrial CT: Applications, Adoption Steps, and ROI

In automotive manufacturing, the biggest costs often come from what you don’t see in time. Late PPAP failures, DV/PV delays, supplier escapes, warranty exposure and damaged brand trust all trace back to hidden quality risks discovered too late in the process.

Vehicle architectures are getting more complex, tolerances tighter, and timelines shorter - while expectations for safety, reliability and traceability continue to rise. Traditional inspection methods alone can’t always keep pace, especially when critical features are buried inside parts.

Industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT) changes that equation.

CT gives engineering and quality teams non-destructive, 3D visibility inside castings, electronics and assemblies, complementing traditional gauges, CMMs and X-ray. By replacing destructive sectioning and external lab delays, CT delivers tighter feedback loops, earlier decisions and real ROI - including investigations up to 8x faster and immediate savings in time and outsourcing costs.

This webinar explains how CT works and shows how automotive teams are applying it today to reduce risk, accelerate validation and improve launch outcomes across the vehicle lifecycle.

Moving from destructive testing to CT isn’t just about better visibility - it delivers tangible business outcomes. Automotive teams using CT report:

• Up to 8× faster investigations

• Immediate savings by reducing outsourcing and lab delays

• Faster containment decisions and fewer downstream surprises

• Shorter turnaround from days to hours using browser-based reviews

What you'll learn:

• What industrial CT is, how it works, and why it complements existing gauges, CMMs, and X-ray for automotive programs.
• How to apply CT to high-impact tasks: porosity analysis for HPDC castings, wall-thickness mapping, CAD/scan comparison, and leak-path diagnosis that supports PPAP, FAI, and DV/PV.
• How engineers verify electronics and sensors nondestructively, including solder quality, pin alignment, and hidden assembly features that affect ADAS reliability.
• Practical adoption paths, and how the range of CT hardware and software available support everything from in-house R&D and failure analysis to automated line or line-adjacent inspection.
• How to quantify ROI with proven results, such as teams saving significant outsourcing costs and cutting turnaround from days to hours by replacing destructive testing with CT and browser-based reviews.

If your quality strategy depends on finding problems earlier, making faster decisions and launching with confidence, this webinar will show how industrial X-ray CT can deliver measurable results.

Speaker

Alex Hao
Head of Product Marketing
Lumafield

Alex Hao is a Technical Product Marketing Manager at Lumafield, where she conducts studies and develops resources that help engineers adopt industrial X-ray CT. Hao’s career has spanned product and research roles in advanced technologies including cloud infrastructure, 3D sensing, and additive manufacturing at Lumentum and HP. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business.

Moderator

Ilkhan Ozsevim
Assistant Editor
AMS

Ilkhan Ozsevim is a seasoned editor and journalist with a passion for uncovering the latest trends and innovations in the automotive industry.

With a keen eye for detail and a knack for storytelling, Ilkhan has established himself as a trusted voice in the automotive world, specialising in engaging thought leaders and writing insightful features on topics ranging from EVs and smart factories through to automotive logistics and supply chain management.

Sponsor

Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing.

We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle, from initial ideas to shipping hardware, across industries and specializations, who became frustrated by the cost and complexity of modern manufacturing. So we decided to upgrade it.

We started with industrial CT scanning, which for us was the most valuable but underutilized tool in the manufacturing toolbox, enabling us to rapidly inspect essential components non-destructively. But even this industrial advancement felt stuck in the past, using massive, costly hardware, reliant on complicated, outdated software. So we decided to upgrade it.

We rebuilt the whole system, from X-ray capture, to computer vision analysis, to web-based collaboration, to the entire business model, making the most advanced manufacturing tech more accessible to every industry.

Our company, like our platform, is designed for upgrades. We’re building for greater intelligence, autonomy, and speed. For deeper vision, operational excellence, and powerful insights. And then we'll upgrade it all again.